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I haven’t spoken up about the failness that is #EAfail, partly because I’ve been doing detective work, collecting many of the links you see in this post, keeping tabs on what’s going on in the Twitter stream, and just gathering my thoughts on it after several days of perspective. If you haven’t heard about it, this post gives a good…

Today is Ada Lovelace Day, an international day to draw attention to women in technology, in which bloggers from around the world write about a woman in tech that they admire. Today, I’m going to write about Paulina Bozek, a fellow LSE alumna and the Executive Producer of one of my favourite videogames, SingStar. Paulina Bozek is the award…

Today I visited the Nintendo Customer Service Centre in Redmond, Washington to have oliemoon’s and her friend’s DS Lites repaired (the right shoulder buttons stopped working). I took a few pictures with my phone. I apologise if they’re a little blurry. This is a shot of the counter towards the back of the shop: There are two seating areas, marked…

I was in Japan for two weeks and I just returned last night. I didn’t do much gaming there because I placed more importance on other activities. I did take a lot of pictures and bought a bunch of stuff, though. This is one of many used goods shops (recycle shops) I visited. The majority of items in these shops…

Something odd happened to me this week. Early one morning, my internet went down for a couple of hours. I tried resetting my modem to no avail. I was irritated because I’d have to take time out of my day to call Comcast and tell them to fix my internet. I posted a tweet on Twitter to vent my frustration:…